Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2553 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2553

  To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to classify aliens who 
 have been convicted of, or who have committed, an offense for driving 
     while intoxicated or impaired as inadmissible and deportable.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 30, 2025

Mr. Hagerty (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Capito, 
  Mrs. Britt, Mr. Cotton, and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to classify aliens who 
 have been convicted of, or who have committed, an offense for driving 
     while intoxicated or impaired as inadmissible and deportable.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Our Communities from DUIs 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INADMISSIBILITY AND DEPORTABILITY RELATED TO DRIVING WHILE 
              INTOXICATED OR IMPAIRED.

    (a) Inadmissibility.--Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(J) Driving while intoxicated or impaired.--Any 
                alien who has been convicted of, who admits having 
                committed, or who admits committing, acts constituting 
                the essential elements of an offense for driving while 
                intoxicated or impaired (as such terms are defined by 
                the law of the jurisdiction in which the conviction, 
                offense, or acts constituting the essential elements of 
                the offense occurred), including an offense for driving 
                while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol 
                or drugs, is inadmissible, regardless of whether such 
                conviction or offense is classified as a misdemeanor or 
                felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local law.''.
    (b) Deportability.--Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(G) Driving while intoxicated or impaired.--Any 
                alien who has been convicted of an offense for driving 
                while intoxicated or impaired (as such terms are 
                defined by the law of the jurisdiction in which the 
                conviction occurred), including a conviction for 
                driving while under the influence of, or impaired by, 
                alcohol or drugs, is deportable, regardless of whether 
                such conviction is classified as a misdemeanor or 
                felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local law.''.
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